Job Interests: Internship in summer 2014 at an Industry R&D focused on point of care diagnostics

BIOGRAPHYPramod obtained his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Comm. Engg. from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal in 2009 and M.E degree in Microelectronic Systems from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2011. He worked as a Project Associate at the Centre for NanoScience and Engineering, Bangalore from 2011-2012. Currently he is a graduate student at U C Berkeley working with Prof. Bernhard Boser and Prof. Ali Niknejad.

Magnetic Particle Flow Cytometer [BPN649]The complex susceptibility of magnetic materials show a frequency dependent behavior. The goal of the work over the last six months has been to measure the susceptibility for different magnetic materials. A coplanar waveguide is designed on a Duroid substrate. The waveguide is connected to a spiral inductor of nominal value 4.5 nH. These devices are wire bonded to the CPW and measurements are carried out using a network analyzer. The susceptibility is extracted from the measured S-parameters. Measurement results show a clear difference between the susceptibility curves of ferrites of cobalt, manganese and nickel. These measurements corroborate the design of a CMOS chip for detection of magnetically labelled cells enabling a point of care cytometer.